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Mexico’s health ministry on Friday reported 6,717 new confirmed coronavirus infections and 794 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 469,407 cases and 51,311 deaths.
Officials have said the real number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases.
Further north in Australia, there are delays of up to 90 minutes for people seeking to cross the Queensland border from New South Wales, after stricter conditions came into force at 1am.
Under the new conditions, Queensland residents who have been in hotspot areas – that’s all of Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, according to Queensland – will have to fly into the state and undergo 14-days of quarantine in a hotel at their own expense.
Of course, the 142 people who were turned around were disappointed, and the 18 Queenslanders no doubt were extremely disappointed, because there’s gonna be considerable cost for them. Not only when they fly back home, they also then need to go into quarantine at their own expense.
So, it’s a very costly exercise. But there was significant warning put out during the week. So, it’s unfortunate, but this is all about stopping Covid-19 coming into Queensland.
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